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Old 05-30-03 | 08:01 PM
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Gungrave was really, really easy. Worth 10 bucks at Target, though.
Gungrave is all style and very little substance. But it's entertaining for what it's worth ($10).
Old 05-31-03 | 01:03 AM
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ok I'll bite

Blinx the Time Sweeper
Quantum Redshift
Bloody Roar (all of them)
Crimson Sea
Street Hoops
Dead or Alive Extreme Beach Volleyball
Castlevania 64
Resident Evil Survivor
Vexx- although I wanna give it another try
Batman-Dark Tomorrow
Apex
Sega GT 2002
Old 05-31-03 | 01:11 AM
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WCW Thunder and WWF Attitude for PSX. And Bubsy 3D. *shudders*
Old 05-31-03 | 01:47 AM
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There was this Genesis game, I think it came out with the second wave of games for the system. It had a 3/4 camera angle, and you were a crappy robot that moved around and fired crappy guns. I think it had either machine or tech or something like that in the title. Can anyone remember this game?
By no means am I talking about Herzog Zwei, one of the finest realtime startegy games of all time!
Michael Jackson's Moonwalker was sweet!
I think you're talking about Mechwarrior, the crappy console adaptation of the excellent PC mech sim.
Old 05-31-03 | 01:48 AM
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Oh yeah, while we're on the FF topic, i'm actually looking forward to playing FF X-2. The triumphant return of the Job system!
Old 05-31-03 | 01:52 AM
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Ah but you missed the point by miles. All you seem to mention is the graphics and the cutscenes, which makes perfect sense why you would enjoy the newer games.

Would I be content with no nonesne, medicore graphics? ***** yeah I would if there was a solid game under it. Therein lies the problem, the newer games lack the substance the older games had. There's no longer a sense of going on an adventure rather than just watching a [lame] story come together. The new games are so linear and lacking of any real thought behind the adventure. The "gameplay" is only there to serve as in-between the cutscenes fodder. You no longer go exploring, looking for treasure, and battle monster. You simply move from point A to point B (in a straigh line) and if you come across monsters you simply tap the A button a few times to dispatch them to move along to the next cutscene. But let's not forget the oodles of mini-games! Yes, instead of adding substance to the actual adventure they force you to play very non-RPG like mini-games to give you the sense thay you're actually "doing" something rather than just sitting there watching the game unfold. And that's the bottom line and the big difference between the old and new Final Fantasy: In the old games you played a story, in the new games you watch a story.

If you prefer the new, that's cool.. I'm only explaining why some people may not like the series.
Again, I disagree..... The newer games have plenty of story to go around. Sure, there are lots of mini games, but alot can get you better weapons, spells, attacks, etc.

Take Xenosaga for example. Super long ass cutscenes. But a great story, at least IMO. Plus, you could skip them or pause them, which I thought was great. I never skipped any, unless I died and had to retry a battle. I think all games with cutscenes should allow you to skip them.

Don't get me wrong, the early FF games had some awesome story lines, and great midi music....but I'll take the new ones anyday. To each his own, eh brother?

Old 05-31-03 | 01:56 AM
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Again, I disagree..... The newer games have plenty of story to go around. Sure, there are lots of mini games, but alot can get you better weapons, spells, attacks, etc.

Take Xenosaga for example. Super long ass cutscenes. But a great story, at least IMO. Plus, you could skip them or pause them, which I thought was great. I never skipped any, unless I died and had to retry a battle. I think all games with cutscenes should allow you to skip them.

Don't get me wrong, the early FF games had some awesome story lines, and great midi music....but I'll take the new ones anyday. To each his own, eh brother?

You're misunderestimating what pixyboi is saying...he's not trashing the story of the new FF games, but the gameplay. That's the same reason i hate them too...although FF8 stood a chance of coming pretty close to almost being somewhat half-decent in the gameplay department.
Old 05-31-03 | 07:41 AM
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You're misunderestimating what pixyboi is saying...he's not trashing the story of the new FF games, but the gameplay. That's the same reason i hate them too...although FF8 stood a chance of coming pretty close to almost being somewhat half-decent in the gameplay department.
I understood him perfectly. I like the newer gameplay better, myself. It feels easier to control, and it sems like there is more to do, and interact with.
Old 06-01-03 | 06:17 AM
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For games that I finished it would be Daikatana. Wow. There was so much good crushed by really bad ideas. The 2 partners I got died so often I wished for a "Don't Revive" button. Half the fun got to be shootin' 'em.
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Originally posted by cleaver
There was this Genesis game, I think it came out with the second wave of games for the system. It had a 3/4 camera angle, and you were a crappy robot that moved around and fired crappy guns. I think it had either machine or tech or something like that in the title. Can anyone remember this game?
By no means am I talking about Herzog Zwei, one of the finest realtime startegy games of all time!
Michael Jackson's Moonwalker was sweet!
Was it Final Zone by Renovation?

Old 06-01-03 | 09:14 PM
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Timesplitters 2 - complete crap. I can't even understand why so many people liked it... it might have been mediocre had the controls not been so completely crappy.

I don't understand why someone would hate every Final Fantasy game ever made - why even play more than one or two of them if you don't like em? "Oh man, that sucked... can't wait for the next one." The games always looked stupid to me - cool looking CG cutscenes and complete garbage gameplay... I'd rather roll 20 sided dice while some nerd wearing a cape tells me I slayed a dragon. I played FF10 and thought it was okay. Nothing to go crazy over, but at least the characters didn't look like duplo people.
Old 06-01-03 | 10:11 PM
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Ah, Final Zone.

It's tough to put that in my list of "worst games you have ever played" {Didn't anybody here play just about anything in the Atari 2600 or Odyssey2 library?}, but that was a true stinker. That has to be one of the biggest letdowns in my years of gaming.

Screenshots and previews indicated it had plenty of potential, but, oh my goodness, that impression couldn't have been more wrong.


By the way, it's a much better pick for this thread than Quantum Redshift... if QR's one of the worst games somebody has played, he's truly extraordinary in picking out games to play.
Old 06-01-03 | 10:47 PM
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Timesplitters 2 - complete crap. I can't even understand why so many people liked it... it might have been mediocre had the controls not been so completely crappy.
Wow...my friends and I played the crap outta TS2. Dunno what problem you had with the controls, but it was easily the best controlled FPS on a console I have played...and I have played them all

I own it for the GC...maybe the system you tried it on was worse?

The game just has so much to unlock and is fun and fast. I guess no game is 100% loved...I hate Halo
Old 06-01-03 | 10:59 PM
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TS2's multiplayer is damn good for a console game, especially since you can pick it up for $10...
Old 06-01-03 | 11:08 PM
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I played a lot of 2600 stuff, but I was a young kid then, so I was enamoured with just playing the video game system. I even liked the traditional crappy games like ET and Pac Man, and the games that were fantastically difficult (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom), and the impossibly obtuse like Swordquest. I even liked this crazy space game that came with a different gamepad with overlays and was in the bargin bin because it didn't sell.

Looking back, I realize they were crap, but as a 10 year old kid, I just enjoyed pushing ET around on a screen. It didn't matter to me that the gameplay was impossible. Honestly.
Old 06-01-03 | 11:15 PM
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Heh, yeah einTier, that's exactly how it was for me. Those games mesmorized me, crappiness and all. Didn't matter what someone put in, I'd play it. Only when the original Nintendo came around did I get a little pickier and found a few games on there to be bad (rented those like crazy).
Old 06-01-03 | 11:26 PM
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Section Z for NES, that game blew.
Old 06-01-03 | 11:39 PM
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I liked Section Z, it was just hard as hell if I remember correctly.
Old 06-02-03 | 02:41 AM
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Pokemon Snap - Short and Crap..
Old 06-02-03 | 04:09 AM
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how about anything Pokemon related, lol
Old 06-02-03 | 08:27 AM
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I'm surprised in all of the Final Fantasy bashing no one has mentioned FF: Mystic Quest on the SNES. It was a dumbed down version of Final Fantasy released in the states to attract non-RPG players. One of the worst games ever.

WWE Crush Hour is horrible too.
Old 02-03-04 | 10:55 AM
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Old 02-03-04 | 11:58 AM
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Suprised this one has not been mentioned yet: State of Emergency.
Old 02-03-04 | 01:14 PM
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yeah, I bought state of emergency after GTA3 came out, thought "rockstar", the game has got to kick ass. Popped it in, was impressed at how many people on screen, then realized graphics were really low rez sorta, and that sinking feeling comes over you that is all there is, nothing else. just running around in a crowd, die, rinse, repeat. Sheesh
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Originally posted by illennium
Vandal Hearts II is the worst game I've ever finished.
Vandal Hearts II is mentioned by someone as "worst game ever", no matter the qualifier?!?

That was a fun, but slightly too easy, follow-up to the great SRPG Vandal Hearts. Reviews slammed the sequel so much for the simultaneous movements, consistently leaving the mistaken impression that your chosen guy would walk over and swing futilely at the space an enemy guy just left (and vice versa), that I only picked it up when it was $8 at Meijer one day.

That'll probably stand up as my best $8 videogame-related purchase for at least a few more years.


Edit: Don't know why I didn't defend this months ago when I stood up for Quantum Redshift's reputation.

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